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The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
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The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
Style: spooky, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, vintage
Audience: teens
Plot: college, witch, psychic, revenge, telekinesis, psychic power, campus, mind power, magic, mental disorder, bullying, brain, psychokinesis, school, dog, paranormal phenomena, piano, supernatural power, female protagonist, violin, humiliation, initiation, sister, sorority, supernatural ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles

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Most similar movies to The Initiation of Sarah

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about supernatural, youth, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, danger, murder and deadly mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Initiation of Sarah: Dark Intruder (1965), The Spell (1977), The Source (2001), 5ive Girls (2006), Little Witches (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dark Intruder (1965)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
Style: lovecraft, psychotronic, action thriller, detective, grindhouse ...
Plot: occult, cosmic horror, supernatural, shoulder wound, body swap, fiance fiancee relationship, supernatural power, servant, physician, occult ritual, fiancee, disguise ...
Time: 1890s
Place: san francisco
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100%
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The Spell (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, offbeat, bleak ...
Plot: bullying, revenge, telekinesis, psychic power, witch, psychic, evil child, mind power, supernatural, supernatural power, high school, torment ...
Time: 70s
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79%
The Initiation of Sarah (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A sorority girl unwittingly becomes the focus of a battle between good and evil.
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, tense, rough ...
Plot: sorority, college, college life, secret society, supernatural, siblings relations, betrayal, youth, danger, sister sister relationship, female protagonist, suicide attempt ...
Time: 21st century
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73%
 4.0
 769
The Source (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Four outcast teenagers acquire mystical powers that allow them to become gods on campus, with deadly consequences.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teenage life, supernatural, supernatural ability, bully, teenage love, social misfits, youth, prank, rivalry, vengeance, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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5ive Girls (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a reformatory and discover they possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which holds thrall over the sinister institution.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, tense, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: demon, demonic possession, healing power, girls' boarding school, good versus evil, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, danger, youth, teachers and students ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Little Witches (1996)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Six misfit schoolgirls at an all-girl Catholic high school, left alone at the school for Easter week, get mixed up with the occult and witchcraft after an old Satanic temple is found underneath the church where they attend as well as an old book of ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, bleak, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: witch, demon, nun, occult, boarding school, black magic, human sacrifice, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, escapades, girls' boarding school ...
Time: 90s
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48%
Survival Island (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Teens trapped on an island are haunted by a demon hidden inside...a pinata.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: monster, gory, curses spells and rituals, teenage life, danger, supernatural, rivalry, village, escapades, survival, sorority, island ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Witch Files (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A coven of young women with incredible powers and difficult pasts discovers that they are able to make their every wish come true. Things, however, take a dangerous turn when they discover that their newly-found abilities come with a price and that ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: witch, coven, high school, found footage, friendship, supernatural power, supernatural, death, peril, paranormal, characters in danger, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Cry (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In New York, detective Alex Scott is investigating with his partner Sergio Perez the disappearance of several children. When they visit the Mexican witch Gloria, the woman advises that a powerful evil force is chasing the reincarnation of her son ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspense, independent film, scary ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, mentally unstable, investigation, supernatural ability, imaginary, danger, reincarnation, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, missing child, rivalry ...
Time: 16th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
House at the End of the Drive (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When David King purchases a house in the hills far above the angst of Los Angeles, he gets much more than he bargained for when strange and unexplainable occurrences in and around the house begin to take control of his daily life
Style: suspenseful, tense, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: paranormal, ghost, ghost story, paranormal phenomena, peril, demon, serial murder, deadly creature, friends, curses spells and rituals, revenge, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Stranger in Our House (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A country family of five takes in cousin Julia, whose parents recently perished in a car crash. Julia extends her influence over the family and those around them, fooling all except for Rachel, the teenaged girl who knows her cousin is up to no ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, satanic, spooky, slasher ...
Plot: witch, voodoo, occult, black magic, teenager, supernatural, housekeeper, summer, magic, obsession, car accident, witchcraft ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Blood Legend (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young witch gathers her coven to methodically fulfill her uncle's demands to help resurrect a demon lover from centuries past. Believing that she has completed her tasks she waits for the resurrection and her eternal rewards only to find ...
Style: serious, scary, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
Plot: supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, escapades, vengeance, school, hopes, imaginary, youth, rivalry, prank ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Seconds Apart (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telekinesis. Things start to spiral out of control as their classmates die in twisted and bizarre ways. Jealousy begins to divide them and soon they can no longer trust each other, leading up to a ...
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police investigation, twin brother, telekinesis, murder, supernatural, police detective, russian roulette, brother brother relationship, supernatural ability, sibling relationship, serial murder, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Sisterhood (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Christine (Jennifer Holland) and Reagan (Kate Plec) are a pair of young women who get to know each other when they end up sharing a dorm room in college. Christine is a studious type who is still getting over a family tragedy, while Reagan never ...
Style: suspense, serious, bleak, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot: college, vampire, teenage life, woman in danger, escapades, danger, youth, rivalry, supernatural ability, supernatural, good versus evil, curses spells and rituals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
After Midnight (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Horror anthology about a college professor (Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a ...
Style: anthology, slasher, psychological, dark fairy tale, creepy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, afterlife, dog, decapitation, professor, teenage girl, macabre, celebration, school, campus, urban, vengeance ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Baphomet (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: An American family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult leader, Henrik Brandr, unexpectedly visits their ranch. Henrik offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their ...
Style: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: cult leader, survival, devil worship, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, supernatural power, good versus evil, characters in danger, society, death, revenge, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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37%
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Blood Sisters (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In 1974, a little boy tries to talk a little girl into getting naked for him, which she refuses and calls him a pervert. He then runs home, which happens to be a brothel where several (extremely unattractive) hookers and their johns roam around in ...
Style: slasher, independent film, slasher horror, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, ghost, occult, sorority, exploitation, nudity, murder, haunted house, campus, lgbtq, teenager, prank ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
House of Purgatory (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Four teenagers go looking for a legendary haunted house that gives you money back for every floor you can complete. Once finding it, they realize the house is much more terrifying than a normal Halloween attraction - the house knows each of their ...
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: halloween, halloween party, supernatural, haunted house, purgatory, ghost, paranormal, chase, violence, peril, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Detention (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, danger, prank, youth, high school life, isolation, teenage life, high school, detention, stoner, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 21st century
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35%
American Poltergeist (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A group of friends move into a vacation home with a sinister past in Fall River, Massachusetts. Suspicious of the home's owner, Taryn feels a strong connection to the house and finds herself at the center of one of the most deadly poltergeists ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, bleak, suspense
Plot: poltergeist, haunted house, haunting, chase, pursuit, friends, victim, ghost, characters in danger, curses spells and rituals, murder, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
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Voodoo (1995)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Andy comes to campus in order to be close to his girlfriend Rebecca. Since he needs a place to stay he joins one of the college fraternities. However, a strange looking man warns him that the fraternity is just a cover-up for the weird voodoo cult.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending ...
Plot: voodoo, supernatural, college, college campus, youth, on the run, superhuman powers, curses spells and rituals, friendship, college life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, human sacrifice ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Amityville Harvest (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While staying at an aging manor to research its liquor-smuggling history, Christina and her documentary video team interview their spooky host Vincent—but no one can capture his image or voice on video. After shocking dreams and bloody encounters, ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: murder, paranormal investigation, supernatural power, friendship, chase, supernatural, evil, monster, fear, friends, hunting, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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31%
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Dark Image (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A girl is possessed and kills her own twin sister.
Style: disturbing, scary, suspense, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: twins, murder, ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, twin sister, demon, loss, vengeance, revenge, curses spells and rituals, victim ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Evil Takes Root (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A paranormal investigator arrives in a sleepy Midwest town to investigate the mysterious loss of his old lover and reconcile sins of the past. He discovers she fell victim to the Batibat, an ancient evil that followed her home from the Philippines.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot: supernatural, occult, coven, demon, evil, possession, witchcraft, family in danger, paranormal, danger, peril, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Paranormal Prison (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.
Style: scary, psychotronic, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, found footage, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, investigation, chase, danger, peril, supernatural power, rescue, death, friendship ...
Place: usa, idaho
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29%
I've Been Waiting for You (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a California teen with an interest in the occult moves to a New England town, she finds that the town teens believe she is a witch sent to seek revenge on the descendants of the people who originally killed another witch a hundred years ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience: teens
Plot: witchcraft, curse, serial killer, revenge, teen angst, whodunit, murder, fortune teller, phone terror, psychopath, danger, mysterious character ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Brotherhood III: Young Demons (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, homoerotic, erotic ...
Plot: supernatural, imaginary, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths, good versus evil, supernatural ability, rivalry, escapades, youth, danger, gay ...
Time: middle ages, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Long Time Dead (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spirit, supernatural, seance, genie, curses spells and rituals, game, serial killer, youth, murder, supernatural power, danger, vengeance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two young Gatlin residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. The terror of Gatlin goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents in the city. The younger brother takes some corn seeds along for ...
Style: scary, slasher, cult classic, classic horror, dark ...
Plot: killer child, stephen king, supernatural, creepy child, telekinesis, religion, killer scarecrow, evil child, scarecrow, youth, vengeance, gory ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Are You in the House Alone? (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Teenage girl is plagued by harassing phone calls. Her fear mounts when she's babysitting at a neighbor's home one evening and the caller rings her at that number.
Style: slasher, bloody, creepy, mind bending, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, ghost, cell phone, mental disorder, 666, occult, stalking, high school, rock, best friend, campaign, couples ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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